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Fawkes (Nadine Brandes) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father’s plot to assassinate the king of England. Silent wars leave the most carnage. The wars that are never declared but are carried out in dark alleys with masks and hidden knives. Wars where color power alters the natural rhythm of 17th-century London. And when the king calls for peace, no one listens until he finally calls for death. But what if death finds him first? Keepers think the Igniters caused the plague. Igniters think the Keepers

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19 July 2018

First Line Friday – 13 July 2018 – Fawkes (Nadine Brandes)

Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books! I’ve headed back to the early 1600s this week—with a bit of a twist. Nadine Brandes’ new release Fawkes tells the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, but it’s blended with elements of fantasy. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but it’s working for me. I’m really enjoying it!

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13 July 2018

My Brother’s Crown (Mindy Starns Clark & Leslie Gould) – Review

This book essentially contains two stories: one set in the present day (narrated in the first person), and one set in France in 1685 (narrated in the third person). In the present, Renee Talbot’s family have had the sole surviving copy of the ‘Persecution Pamphlet’ in their safekeeping for more than three centuries. Originally printed in 1685 as “A Collection of Verse for the Encouragement of Young Men and Women” it actually contained carefully concealed information to assist Huguenots (French Protestants) fleeing persecution under King Louis XIV. For eleven generations it has been handed down through the Talbot family from

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